Power Homeschool vs Teaching Textbooks

Power Homeschool provides Acellus digital courses for parents independently homeschooling students from PreK through grade 12. Subjects include core areas, electives, and health. Lessons combine video instruction, interactive practice, help videos, reviews, exams, memorization drills, digital books, and onsite lesson plans. Prism Diagnostics identifies learning gaps and supplies customized instruction, while Vectored Instruction addresses missing prerequisite skills. The Parent Portal offers live progress monitoring, printable reports, customizable goals, and course resources. Attendance is tracked, with reports covering report cards, completed work, attendance, and student hours. Each student may take up to six courses at a time, and parents can change selections. Parents supervise because teacher support is not provided. Students need the Acellus App and internet access. Supported systems include Windows 10 or 11, macOS 13.3+, iOS/iPadOS 16.4+, Android 13+, and compatible Chromebooks on ChromeOS 116+. Plans cost 79.00 USD or $99 a month per student.

Teaching Textbooks provides digital math courses from Math 3 through Pre-Calculus for students and homeschool families. Course apps combine interactive lectures with step-by-step video solutions, then automatically grade student work and save it in a printable gradebook. Each app has a searchable eBook that parents can view or print through the Parent Portal, where they can also review grades, change student settings, pause enrollments, and access answer keys. Students can work offline for up to six lessons before reconnecting. A free trial covers the program through lesson 15, has no time limit, and carries completed grades into a purchased course. Enrollments provide one student with one grade level and 12 months of access, with 90 days of pause time; moving to another grade requires a new enrollment. Listed prices begin at $48.95, paid once for Math 3, Math 4, and Math 5, and reach $83.95, paid once for Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus. Apps are available for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Chromebook, and Kindle devices.